Gorse (whin) beside the beach at Scremerston in Northumberland, just south of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Only a few yards off to the left lies the East Coast mainline.
HEATHERLAND and bentland,*
Black land and white,
God bring me to Northumberland,
The land of my delight.
Land of singing waters,
And words from off the sea,
God bring me to Northumberland,
The land where I would be.
Heatherland and bentland,
And valley rich with corn,
God bring me to Northumberland,
The land where I was born.
Bent-grass (Agrostis) is a very common kind of stiff, coarse grass. Bentland is an area of bent-grass, or simply a term for heathland in general.
Précis
Wilfrd Gibson writes nostalgically of Northumberland, the county in which he was born, and wishing he might return there. His memories are of the countryside, the broad moorland and the fields, and also of the coast, implying that it was overlooking the sea that his verses often came to him. (50 / 60 words)